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watching r.t. coming to live from moscow eleven am in the russian capital. what began as a peaceful anti-war demonstration turned ugly in the turkish capital ankara after riot police moved in to disperse the crowd officers fired tear gas and used water cannons as well as smoke grenades against the activist with manny bystanders also getting caught up in the melee thousands also poured into the streets of assam bold to demonstrate against the policies of turkey's ruling party accusing it of singing to the tune of the u.s. the wave of popular discontent inspired by the parliament's approval process for a military action into syria which could pave the way to a full scale war war and that from artie's middle east correspondent policy or. they were chanting slogans that syria is all framed and that we are against war but they clash with police landed up fire. during rounds of tear gas at them more

people are concerned that the border tensions could disintegrate into a regional conflict on thursday the turkish parliament held a closed door emergency session in which a bill was overwhelmingly passed that allows the turkish military to carry out cross border operations against syrian targets now this is in period for a year it has been defended by the turkish government that says it has the right to defend itself it is a pains to point out that this is not a declaration of war and that and operate in conjunction with international bodies the turks are responding to a syrian mortar that was fired on wednesday it killed five turkish citizens two of them women and three of them children while they were preparing a meal tookie immediately responded by firing into syrian territory and this offensive continued until the early hours of thursday morning now by all accounts

there were several syrian soldiers who were killed tookie also responded by going on the offensive in the political arena an emergency meeting of nato was hold on wednesday so as i say an extremely volatile situation that we're keeping close watch on. the reporting there now turkey says it has no intentions to start a war with syria but political analysts covering the middle east sharm in. ankara doesn't necessarily have to engage in direct military action against the embattled state to defeat it. turkey's declared war on syria long time ago this is aired on endeavor to lose war they've supplied weapons and they've supplied training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation no crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to sort of you know do a last push against the us treasury team they cannot get a u.n.

security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for a backdoor into military intervention because of course turkey even call it can call on its nato allies to to assist in its sensually the nato allies who would anyways do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a u.n. security council resolution so you know and there are questions about this is this the false. you know operation to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one now the un's most powerful body has called for restraint from both anchor and damascus as a strongly decried syria's deadly attack on turkish citizens are days marine important as got the latest from the u.n. security council in new york. the u.n. security council agreed and issued a presidential statement strongly condemning wednesday's mortar attack by syria on

a turkish border town that as we already heard as killed people and in danger and several others the council called on the syrian government to fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors and it calls on all concerned parties to exercise maximum restraint a presidential statement issued by the council also demanded that quote such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated mortar fire from syria had a town in turkey on wednesday and that's when the security council began its a liberal. this presidential statement earlier on thursday the un secretary-general ban ki moon also voiced his alarm at escalating tensions along the syrian turkish border and the un itself there's a lot of divisions over how to solve this crisis that it escalates and everybody within the security council in the u.n. is trying to ease tensions that are growing not only within syria but now on the border between syria and turkey and a timeline of events and more analysis on the stories available on our website our

team there you can also find more on the ripple effect beyond running syrian crisis ascending to its neighboring states. and iraq is one of them and a couple of hours from now r.t. talks to the country's prime minister peace can be bought broad rather to syria through weapons and foreign troops. the british army is the latest victim of the country seemingly endless a sturdy drive with eight thousand fewer u.k. soldiers reporting for duty come the new year but as are probably boyko reports why comes to funding expensive war toys britain apparently has mike to burn. the number of soldiers in the british army is being cut back by a fifth as you can see here that's quite a significant reduction is going to mean the smallest british army since before the napoleonic wars eight thousand u.k. troops face christmas as unemployed civilians defense secretary philip pam and

insists the cuts a necessary to balance the defense budget yet at the same time the u.k. is committed to remaining one of the biggest military spending is in the world well any modern army even if it cuts its troops needs up to date equipment but take a look at these the british government has spent some two billion pounds on developing remote control attacks drones since two thousand and seven but homegrown u.k. drones don't have a good track record how about the watch keeper drone this nifty piece of military equipment has already cost the u.k. taxpayers eight hundred million pounds it was meant to be up and flying by now it isn't yet ready and now running two under half years late the watch keep its predecessor it was a drone called the phoenix that proved so unreliable that an army cycles it became known as the bugger off because it often left on missions never to return the

phoenix was such an epic fail that it was used as an example of the quote dismal failure of the british built drone for systems engineering students in one u.k. university and the cost of this techno flop two billion pounds in fact the ministry of defense is attempt to balance its books has actually contributed to an increase in spending on equipment something those troops facing their final paycheck in the coming weeks will find hard to stomach. r.t. . now more stories features videos and analysis in a store for you on the web including the ad off in the big apple jewish and christian activist groups respond to an anti islamist poster campaign with a message of tolerance. eleven year old boy from northern siberia has made a mammoth discovery uncovering a thirty thousand year old animal buried in the permafrost.

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surprise washington wants to see us out. he has taken a stance which is very highly respected throughout many countries in latin america showing that the united states is the real jerk not just in the middle east but worldwide and not so much the countries that are attacked by the united states especially at a time when in two thousand and eight the united states has reactivated the fourth south atlantic fleet and they now have a very strong military presence throughout latin america in the south atlantic just as they have engineered insurrection and civil war which seems to be washington's specialisation now with the so-called arab spring mini theater here in latin america that we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the internal affairs of countries i've been as well and they will even trigger in activate a generalized latin american spring which will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. and other battle for power this time in the u.s.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow be us presidential candidates barack obama and mitt romney have address their supporters following their first steamy to date polls showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama in the dual commanding the ninety minute debate but rocky under certain presidential candidate for the justice party thinks two parties

ultimately dominating u.s. politics is unhealthy for america i left the democratic party and helped form the justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply one do up believe they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the debate process and they have both been bought and paid for by the same special interests we have a salute crecy not a democracy in the united states where our government is up for sell to the highest bidder romney would bring us along the same path that led to the economic disaster in two thousand and eight with shields tax cuts for the wealthy and normal stuff so it's low employment rates and president obama has a pathetic record he's the only president that has presided over three years of

unemployment of over eight percent that absolutely can be changed who we know that that's what the american people want it's simply that we don't have those elected to office that are willing to take on the special interest. political cartoonist and columnist how the raul says americans are seeking a new policy vision for the nation. it's very hard to tell to see how mitt romney can overcome the lead in the key swing states that obama currently enjoys which considering the state of the economy over the last four years is saying something about the ineptitude of the romney campaign now that said he did outperform expectations last night and you know he is still in the game if he continues to surge and does better in the future debates it's possible that a spite vote will be able to turn against obama and go for romney in a two party system that's all we really have what was very strange is how the democrats who typically identify better with the poor and the downtrodden fail to

humanize their point of view you know obama talked constantly about having a different approach rather than having a different vision americans don't want a different approach they want to different vision and they want solutions mitt romney talked about the people who are hurting in the midwest people who are unemployed who he met and asked for his help that's the kind of thing that obama should have done it's really politics want to one and somehow he was just really off his game. also the latest edition of our debate show crosstalk dissects the first t.v. debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong for the full shows coming your way at nine thirty g.m.t. . eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china massive rival demonstrations are expected in jordan scout but all amman around two hundred thousand supporters of king of dollars

reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are expected to gather for peaceful rallies the same veni on friday earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections he pledged to introduce more reform aiming to avoid arab spring style unrest the country has already faced nearly twenty months of protests with people demanding more stay and the state is run. eighty seven people jailed in tunisia for storming the u.s. embassy and maybe sentenced to death say their defense lawyers back in september and angry mob attacked the diplomatic headquarters in the capital tunis before being met by a strong response from riot police for demonstrators were killed and many more injured in the follow up clashes the incident came in the wake a few areas anti-american protests by muslim communities across the globe over u.s. produced film that mocked the prophet muhammad. there were questions from the war in afghanistan have now reached us far away as their entire farming communities are

being devastated by the influx of cheap afghan heroin with addiction taining every aspect of life and anger over the issue is being directed at the us which refuses to go after agen drug lords and their vast plantations for fear of driving them into the arms of the insurgency or reports. almost two thousand kilometers from the war zone in afghanistan and women like smith rocor are fighting a battle of their own in punjab india you know my song lives with me we lost his father to drugs and recently lost his elder brother to drugs everyone in the neighborhood is taking up drugs and if my son or i then who will look after the children. once known as one of the most prosperous states in india punjab is now one of the biggest drug trafficking hubs in the world officials say most of the confiscated drugs are coming from nearby afghanistan the largest global producer of

opium and the situation is getting worse the united nations has reported that opium production has more than doubled in afghanistan since the united states invaded the country in two thousand and one that critics say that nato and the united states have not done enough to eradicate the narcotics producing poppy fields which they say is the afghans biggest source of income. is such a culture would lead is such a bankrupt lead used to its condition. trysts. of resistant to anything you see the community is hardened it's of so much so they're not going to listen to you if you look nice you know stop going on wheat the drug addiction problem and punjab is becomes so bad that at spirit say that one in three people are actually addicted to drugs and in this area alone people say

that seventy percent of the people between the ages of fifteen and thirty five are addicts it's the drugs and that's not good news for these women smithville corps community has now become known as the village of widows because of all the men who have died from drug addiction. now many bring their children to this. cool where sixteen percent of the six hundred fifty children are orphaned most of their parents died from drug related debts mainly through private donations they are all able to get an education for free but it's little consolation for what many fear could become a lost generation in punjab if more action against drug trafficking isn't taken if something happens to my son to happen to the family where. can i bring them up my so. far from the bullets and explosives in afghanistan and the people of punjab wonder how they too can escape the war that has started to impact millions of their

own preassure either r t india. business marina russia may have very appealing offer to foreign investors or want to understand so tell us more that's exactly right basically a russia is considering offering licenses to drill for oil in its energy rich arctic waters of course russia is the world's biggest crude producer so this is a very appealing offered to foreign investors right now foreign companies can operate offshore projects but they cannot go on the license norway welcomes the move say that will simplify the structure of investment and these comments coming hours before the energy in the trip to london alexander no longer list at all for him says russia seeks funds to develop challenge and deposits. and the european union is fighting for transparency and its energy market and in the latest move europe wants members to disclose its energy contracts and in

a bit soon make the prices universal across the board by march oh nations will provide the commission with their oil and gas the us and solder from next year's while the e.u. commission will be able to take part in all energy talks the move comes amid. gas from surprising energy in europe and just lie. putin express his doubts over the economic efficiency of europe's energy rules. same with europe let's take a look at how the markets are doing there in the first hour of the trading session and with that there are points in the boards and we also know that investors are waiting for the u.s. jobs reports due out later so that is always has a major effect on how the session goes later on i would like to look at the russian markets and see that this volatility in the oil prices and the prices drop in five points in the markets are following the pulse of sentiment across the board with the arts yes on the my stocks adding over one percent and now a quick look at the asian markets they're on their way out of the home but we see

the positive move continue in the it's the spine that the central bank of japan had failed to stimulus measures which everyone was expecting and this is what we have time for this hour more updates coming your way next hour and i'll have more information on the kurds as well but we can take a quick look at sea of red daggers that the euro weaken in against the u.s. dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's gaining against the currency basket this hour as well so that and more still to come we're just run out of time for this hour. all right maria thanks very much indeed and coming up shortly our tea discuss this with the iraqi prime minister a possible ways of resolving the syrian crisis and easing tensions across the arab world. planation in free cretaceous free in-store charge is free to make amends free risk free studio time free.

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